| # | Date | Poet | Title | 1stLine | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1587 | 1 Jan 2005 | Rudyard Kipling | The Explorer | "There's no sense in... | 74 |
| 1588 | 2 Jan 2005 | Wallace Stevens | Six Significant Landscapes | I | 62 |
| 1589 | 4 Jan 2005 | Joseph Brodsky | At a Lecture | Since mistakes are i... | 28 |
| 1590 | 6 Jan 2005 | Edna St. Vincent Millay | Epitaph for the Race of Man: X | The broken dike, the... | 14 |
| 1591 | 7 Jan 2005 | Zachary Richard | Big River | Water's on the river... | 31 |
| 1592 | 8 Jan 2005 | Edwin Morgan | One Cigarette | No smoke without you... | 17 |
| 1593 | 9 Jan 2005 | Derek Walcott | from The Estranging Sea | 1 | 86 |
| 1594 | 10 Jan 2005 | Lao-Tzu | Tao Te Ching: Verse 57 | If you want to be a ... | 20 |
| 1595 | 12 Jan 2005 | Gerard Manley Hopkins | As Kingfishers Catch Fire | As kingfishers catch... | 14 |
| 1596 | 13 Jan 2005 | Edith Sitwell | Still Falls the Rain | The Raids, 1940. Nig... | 35 |
| 1597 | 14 Jan 2005 | Patrick Barrington | I Met a Lady in the Wood | I met a lady in the wood. | 56 |
| 1598 | 15 Jan 2005 | Hart Crane | Voyages - I | Above the fresh ruff... | 16 |
| 1599 | 18 Jan 2005 | Czeslaw Milosz | To Mrs. Professor in Defense of My Cat's Honor and Not Only | My valiant helper, a... | 33 |
| 1600 | 19 Jan 2005 | William Butler Yeats | Two Songs Of A Fool | I | 34 |
| 1601 | 21 Jan 2005 | Henry King | Exequy on his Wife | Accept, thou shrine ... | 120 |
| 1602 | 23 Jan 2005 | George Gordon, Lord Byron | From Beppo | L. | 27 |
| 1603 | 24 Jan 2005 | John Milton | Sonnet XXIII: Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint | Methought I saw my l... | 14 |
| 1604 | 25 Jan 2005 | John Keats | Odeon a Grecian Urn | Thou still unravish'... | 50 |
| 1605 | 26 Jan 2005 | Percy Bysshe Shelley | One Sung of Thee who Left the Tale Untold | One sung of thee who... | 4 |
| 1606 | 27 Jan 2005 | Percy Bysshe Shelley | The Masque of Anarchy (extract) | XXXVII. | 284 |
| 1607 | 28 Jan 2005 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Frost at Midnight | The frost performs i... | 75 |
| 1608 | 29 Jan 2005 | Francis Ledwidge | Lament for Thomas MacDonagh | He shall not hear th... | 12 |
| 1609 | 30 Jan 2005 | Wislawa Szymborska | Cat in an Empty Apartment | Die—you can't do tha... | 37 |
| 1610 | 1 Feb 2005 | Sue Townsend | Mrs. Thatcher | Do you weep, Mrs Tha... | 10 |
| 1611 | 2 Feb 2005 | David Wagoner | For the Man Who Taught Tricks to Owls | You say they were sl... | 15 |
| 1612 | 3 Feb 2005 | Thomas Hardy | Neutral Tones | We stood by a pond t... | 16 |
| 1613 | 4 Feb 2005 | Sarojini Naidu | The Coromandel Fishers | Rise, brothers, rise... | 18 |
| 1614 | 5 Feb 2005 | Kenneth Burke | Temporary Well Being | The pond is plenteous | 10 |
| 1615 | 6 Feb 2005 | Richard Edwards | When I Was Three | When I was three, I ... | 4 |
| 1616 | 7 Feb 2005 | Julia Donaldson | The Gruffalo | A mouse took a strol... | 98 |
| 1617 | 8 Feb 2005 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Give All To Love | Give all to love; | 49 |
| 1618 | 9 Feb 2005 | John T. Wood | Poem for Everyone | I will present you | 34 |
| 1619 | 10 Feb 2005 | Dom Moraes | Absences | Smear out the last star. | 32 |
| 1620 | 11 Feb 2005 | Tony Scanlon | Second Honeymoon | The blue that startl... | 14 |
| 1621 | 12 Feb 2005 | A. D. Hope | As Well as They Can | As well as it can, t... | 12 |
| 1622 | 13 Feb 2005 | Tomas Transtromer | At Funchal (Island of Madeira) | On the beach there's... | 26 |
| 1623 | 14 Feb 2005 | Michelangelo Buonarroti | To The Supreme Being | The prayers I make w... | 14 |
| 1624 | 15 Feb 2005 | Nikki Giovanni | Resignation | I love you | 79 |
| 1625 | 16 Feb 2005 | Thomas Wyatt | The Lover Compareth his State to a Ship in Perilous Storm Tossed on the Sea | My galley chargèd wi... | 14 |
| 1626 | 17 Feb 2005 | Ann Drysdale | The Ram's Skull | There it sits on the... | 57 |
| 1627 | 18 Feb 2005 | Gwendolyn Brooks | We Real Cool | THE POOL PLAYERS. | 10 |
| 1628 | 19 Feb 2005 | Roger McGough | Let Me Die a Youngman's Death | Let me die a youngma... | 29 |
| 1629 | 20 Feb 2005 | E. E. Cummings | suppose | suppose | 26 |
| 1630 | 21 Feb 2005 | Kurtis Lamkin | jump mama | pretty summer day | 53 |
| 1631 | 22 Feb 2005 | Carl Sandburg | Offering and Rebuff | I could love you | 14 |
| 1632 | 23 Feb 2005 | Thomas Hardy | Middle-Age Enthusiasms | To M. H. | 25 |
| 1633 | 24 Feb 2005 | Raymond Carver | My Death | If I'm lucky, I'll b... | 36 |
| 1634 | 25 Feb 2005 | William Butler Yeats | A Cradle Song | The angels are stooping | 12 |
| 1635 | 26 Feb 2005 | Sara Teasdale | A Minuet of Mozart's | Across the dimly lig... | 8 |
| 1636 | 27 Feb 2005 | e. e. cummings | In Just- | in Just- | 24 |
| 1637 | 28 Feb 2005 | William Carlos Williams | Overture to a Dance of Locomotives | Men with picked voic... | 44 |
| 1638 | 1 Mar 2005 | Langston Hughes | Theme for English B | The instructor said, | 41 |
| 1639 | 2 Mar 2005 | Robert Service | The Rover | Oh, how good it is to be | 33 |
| 1640 | 3 Mar 2005 | William Morris | In Prison | Wearily, drearily, | 18 |
| 1641 | 4 Mar 2005 | Omar Khayyam | You know, my Friends, how Long since in my House | You know, my Friends... | 56 |
| 1642 | 5 Mar 2005 | Coventry Patmore | Magna est Veritas | Here, in this little Bay, | 10 |
| 1643 | 6 Mar 2005 | Stephen King | Untitled | Your hair is winter fire, | 3 |
| 1644 | 7 Mar 2005 | Moliere | The Misanthrope | ORONTE | 25 |
| 1645 | 8 Mar 2005 | Siegfried Sassoon | On Passing the New Menin Gate | Who will remember, p... | 14 |
| 1646 | 9 Mar 2005 | Michael P. Garofalo | Haiku | A frog floats | 3 |
| 1647 | 10 Mar 2005 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Fata Morgana | O sweet illusions of song | 24 |
| 1648 | 11 Mar 2005 | Donald Justice | Men at Forty | Men at forty | 20 |
| 1649 | 12 Mar 2005 | Franklin Pierce Adams | Baseball's Sad Lexicon | These are the saddes... | 8 |
| 1650 | 13 Mar 2005 | Emily Dickinson | It was not death, for I stood up | It was not death, fo... | 24 |
| 1651 | 14 Mar 2005 | Sylvia Plath | Aerialist | Each night, this adr... | 48 |
| 1652 | 15 Mar 2005 | Gwendolyn Brooks | Gay Chaps at the Bar | ...and guys I knew i... | 20 |
| 1653 | 16 Mar 2005 | Wallace Stevens | Asides on the Oboe | The prologues are ov... | 41 |
| 1654 | 17 Mar 2005 | Piet Hein | Dream Interpretation | Simplified. | 5 |
| 1655 | 19 Mar 2005 | Hafiz | We Should Talk about This Problem | There is a Beautiful... | 14 |
| 1656 | 20 Mar 2005 | Patrick Barrington | Battle Song | There's havoc on the... | 52 |
| 1657 | 21 Mar 2005 | William Butler Yeats | The Rose of the World | Who dreamed that bea... | 15 |
| 1658 | 22 Mar 2005 | James Dickey | The Heaven of Animals | Here they are. The ... | 39 |
| 1659 | 23 Mar 2005 | Emily Bronte | The Night Wind | In summer's mellow m... | 36 |
| 1660 | 28 Mar 2005 | Arthur Hugh Clough | Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth | Say not the struggle... | 16 |
| 1661 | 29 Mar 2005 | Suzanne Vega | Small Blue Thing | Today I am | 28 |
| 1662 | 30 Mar 2005 | Spike Milligan | Mirror, Mirror | A young spring-tende... | 9 |
| 1663 | 31 Mar 2005 | Queen Elizabeth I | On Monsieur's Departure | I grieve and dare no... | 18 |
| 1664 | 1 Apr 2005 | William Blake | The Echoing Green | The sun does arise, | 30 |
| 1665 | 3 Apr 2005 | Anonymous | The Distracted Centipede | A centipede was happ... | 6 |
| 1666 | 4 Apr 2005 | Robert Creeley | The Rain | All night the sound had | 24 |
| 1667 | 5 Apr 2005 | Ted Kooser | Selecting A Reader | First, I would have ... | 13 |
| 1668 | 6 Apr 2005 | Mark Knopfler | Love Over Gold | You walk out on the ... | 22 |
| 1669 | 7 Apr 2005 | William Butler Yeats | Aedh Laments the Loss of Love | (or The Lover Mourns... | 8 |
| 1670 | 8 Apr 2005 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Shawondasee | Shawondasee, fat and... | 73 |
| 1671 | 9 Apr 2005 | Shel Silverstein | It's Dark in Here | I am writing these poems | 10 |
| 1672 | 10 Apr 2005 | Marriott Edgar | The Lion and Albert | There's a famous sea... | 72 |
| 1673 | 11 Apr 2005 | Ogden Nash | The Tale of Custard the Dragon | Belinda lived in a l... | 56 |
| 1674 | 12 Apr 2005 | A. D. Hope | Ode On the Death of Pius the Twelfth | To every season its ... | 84 |
| 1675 | 13 Apr 2005 | Allen Ginsberg | The Lion For Real | 'Soyez muette pour m... | 58 |
| 1676 | 14 Apr 2005 | Andrew Motion | Spring Wedding | I took your news out... | 16 |
| 1677 | 15 Apr 2005 | Joni Mitchell | The Fiddle and the Drum | And so once again | 35 |
| 1678 | 18 Apr 2005 | Sara Teasdale | Wisdom | When I have ceased t... | 8 |
| 1679 | 19 Apr 2005 | Mary Oliver | Summer | Leaving the house, | 20 |
| 1680 | 20 Apr 2005 | Hugo von Hofmannsthal | Ariadne auf Naxos | There is a land wher... | 36 |
| 1681 | 21 Apr 2005 | There is an end to even the worst career! | -— Sir John Collings... | 21 | |
| 1682 | 22 Apr 2005 | Tom Waits | The Piano Has Been Drinking | The piano has been d... | 19 |
| 1683 | 26 Apr 2005 | Dar Williams | The Ocean | When I went to your ... | 50 |
| 1684 | 27 Apr 2005 | T. S. Eliot | Portrait of a Lady | Thou hast committed -- | 131 |
| 1685 | 28 Apr 2005 | Roger Waters | The Bravery Of Being Out Of Range | You have a natural t... | 52 |
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